WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY

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Dr. Kishor Kuma

Specialization :- Lower Tertiary Vertebrates, Micro and ultrastructure of dentitions

Papers Published

KUMAR, K., 1993. Early Tertiary vertebrates of the Indian subcontinent; palaeogeographic and plate tectonic implications. (In Hindi). Him. Geol. , 14, 91-101. 


RAGE, J.C., CAPPETTA, H., HARTEN BERGER, J.L., JAEGER, J.J., SUDRE, J, VIANEY-LIAUD, M., KUMAR, K., PRASAD, G.V.R and SAHNI, A., 1995. Collision age, Nature, 375, 286.


KUMAR, K. , 1996. Microvertebrate assemblage from the Kakara Formation (Paleocene-? Eocene), Himachal Pradesh , Northwest Himalaya, India. In : PANDE, J. et al., (eds), Contrib. XV Indian Colloq. Micropal. Strat., Dehra Dun, 493-507. 


KUMAR, K, NANDA , A.C. & TIWARI , B.N. , 1996. Rodents from the Oligo -Miocene Kargil Formation, Ladakh , India : biochronologic and palaeogeographic implications. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh., Stuttgart, 202(3), 383-407. 


SRIVASTAVA, R. & KUMAR, K. , 1996. Taphonomy and palaeoenvironment of the Middle Eocene rodent localities of Northwestern Himalaya, India. Palaeogeog. Palaeoclimat., Palaeoecol., 122, 185-211. 


KUMAR, K., LOYAL, R.S. & SRIVASTAVA, R., 1997. Eocene rodents from new localities in Himachal Pradesh, Northwest Himalaya, India: Biochronologic implications. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 50, 461-471. 


KUMAR, K, SRIVASTAVA, R. & SAHNI, A., 1997. Middle Eocene rodents from the Subathu Group, Northwest Himalaya. Palaeovertebrata, Monpellier, 26(1-4), 83-128.


NANDA, A.C. & KUMAR, K. 1999. Excursion Guide on Himalayan Foreland Basin (Jammu-Kalakot-Udhampur Sector). Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, Special Publication no. 2 , 1-85 41 fig. 9 Table.


KUMAR, K. 2000. Correlation of continental Eocene vertebrate localities of the Indian Subcontinent. Him. Geol., 21( 1-2), 63-85.


KUMAR, K.  & SAHNI, A. (eds.) 2000. Himalayan Foreland Basin with special reference to Pre-Siwalik Tertiaries (Special Volume). Wadia Instt. of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, Him. Geol. 21(1-2), 214pp. 


KUMAR, K. & KAD, S. 2002. Early Miocene cricetid rodent (Mammalia) from the Lower Murree of Kalakot, Rajauri District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Curr. Sci., 82 (6), 736-740.


KUMAR, K., HAMRICK, M.W. & THEWISSEN, J.G.M. 2002. Middle Eocene prosimian primate from the Subathu Group of Kalakot, northwestern Himalaya, India. Current Science, 83 (10), 1255-1259.


SPOOR, A., BAJPAI, S., HUSSAIN, S.T., KUMAR, K. & THEWISSEN, J.G.M. 2002. Vestibular evidence for the evolution of aquatic behaviour in early cetaceans. Nature, 417, 163-166.


Kumar, K & Kad, Shashi, 2003. Early Miocene vertebrates from the Murree Group, northwest Himalaya, India: affinities and age implications. Him. Geol., 24(2), 29-53.


Nummela, S., Thewissen, J.G.M., Bajpai, S., Hussain, S.T. & Kumar, K. 2004. Eocene evolution of whale hearing. Nature, 430, 776-778.


Rana, R.S., Kumar, K. & Singh, H., 2004.Vertebrate fauna from the subsurface Cambay Shale (Lower Eocene), Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India. Curr. Sci., 87(12), 1726-1733.


Kumar, K. 2006. Comments on “Early Eocene land mammals from Vastan Lignite Mine, District Surat (Gujarat), western India by Bajpai, S. et al. J.
Palaeontol. Soc. India, 50(1), 101-113, 2005”,www.PalArch.nl Online Journal of VertebratePaleontology Series, 1,2, 7-13.


Kumar, K., Rana, R.S. & Paliwal, B.S. 2005. Osteoglossid and lepisosteid fish remains from the Paleocene Palana Formation, Rajasthan, India. Palaeontology,48(6), 1187-1207.


Rana, R.S., Kumar, K., Singh, H. & Rose, K.D. 2005. Lower vertebrates from the Late Palaeocene-Earliest Eocene Akli Formation, Giral Lignite Mine, Barmer District, western India. Curr. Sci., 89(9), 1606-1613.


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